Performance Analysis of Satellite Communication System Under the Shadowed-Rician Fading: A Stochastic Geometry Approach

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the performance of LEO satellite communication systems under Shadowed-Rician fading using stochastic geometry, deriving outage probabilities and proposing an iterative algorithm for throughput maximization.

Contribution

It introduces a stochastic geometry-based analytical framework for satellite systems, deriving outage probabilities and optimizing throughput with a novel iterative algorithm.

Findings

Analytical expressions for outage probability match simulations.

Approximate outage expressions are close to exact results.

Proposed algorithm achieves near-optimal throughput.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider downlink low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems where multiple LEO satellites are uniformly distributed over a sphere at a certain altitude according to a homogeneous binomial point process (BPP). Based on the characteristics of the BPP, we analyze the distance distributions and the distribution cases for the serving satellite. We analytically derive the exact outage probability, and its approximated expression is obtained using the Poisson limit theorem. With these derived expressions, the system throughput maximization problem is formulated under the satellite-visibility and outage constraints. To solve this problem, we reformulate it with bounded feasible sets and propose an iterative algorithm to obtain near-optimal solutions. Simulation results perfectly match the derived exact expressions for the outage probability and system throughput. The analytical results of the approximated expressions are fairly close to those of the exact ones. It is also shown that the proposed algorithm for the throughput maximization is very close to the optimal performance obtained by a two-dimensional exhaustive search.